First Loves Over & Over — Celebrating National Poetry Month
I believe poetry is the people’s art form. I believe it belongs to all of us, that whether we are readers, writers, or listeners, poetry’s vast world has a little nook for each of us.
Never Mind the Bylines, Here’s the Poetry: April 14th, 2021
Eight poems to help you celebrate National Poetry Month!
This Is How It Is by Sharon King-Campbell
These poems are unapologetically Atlantic Canadian. Even though King-Campbell’s collection traverses the world, it is centred with these roots in Atlantic Canada.
Never Mind the Bylines, Here’s the Poetry: April 1, 2021
Here's the first installment of poems to celebrate National Poetry Month 2021. Enjoy!
The Greg Santos Interview
Edited by Nathaniel Moore, "Never Mind the Bylines, Here's the Poetry" is a special column created specifically to represent many diverse poets from across Canada.
burninghouse by Deborah Stiles
burninghouse peels away the veneer of the speaker’s existence to reveal the hypocritical inconsistencies that lie beneath, including weaning children, decorum in elevators, and homelessness.
Year of the Metal Rabbit by Tammy Armstrong
Much of Tammy Armstrong’s new collection draws its images and scenes from southwestern Nova Scotia, especially Shelburne County, which no previous poetry has reflected and delved into so richly.
Mere Extinction: Poems by Evie Christie
Evie Christie’s second poetry collection Mere Extinction forthcoming from ECW Press is a sprawling empire of beating hearts and lost children, apocalyptic prepping and climate change, single moms and human bewilderment.
The Great Path* by Susanna Peremartoni
Bee hotel yawning
between the holes
glancing at open fields
north wind blows snow
eating our frozen fingers
They’ll warm up by the nightfall
a Chinook greets
beyond the great river
We speed up our steps
under the hangover red clouds
the summer is preening
I could hear … Continue reading
Bill Arnott’s Showcase Interview: Fern G. Z. Carr
Fern G. Z. Carr is a former lawyer, teacher and past president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Kelowna, and of the Project Literacy Central Okanagan Society. She composes and translates poetry in six languages including Mandarin.
The Shadow List by Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee is a seasoned writer with several notable books, but The Shadow List forthcoming this Spring from Wolsak & Wynn is her first poetry collection. It is so refreshing to see a poet embrace the personal lyric, the confessional mode, so freely and expertly.
Democratically Applied Machine by Robert Colmon
Robert Colman's third book of poetry, Democratically Applied Machine, is a back-to-basics approach to creation. In poems that inhabit both industrial and domestic landscapes, Colman traces his inheritance to determine how his life echoes that of his forebears, even as the past blurs with the onset of his father's Alzheimer's dementia.
TMR’s Recommended Reads For 2020/2021 Part 2
Since Part 1 of TMR’s Recommended Reads for 2020/2021, there have been many more wonderful reads crossing our collective desks here at The Miramichi Reader. Before the Spring 2021 releases start flowing in (and some have already) February is a … Continue reading
Still Waters – Kamal Parmar
Still Waters is a Poetic Memoir of the sorrows and stress of a loving daughter watching her mother deteriorate into the throes of the dreaded ‘disease of the decades’, Alzheimer's Disease.
The Fool by Jessie Jones
The Fool is Jessie Jones’s first collection of luminous poems. When reading The Fool, I was struck with the same feelings I get when I read the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud; images bloom in each line, like dreams, making me want to reread each poem just to experience them a while longer.